Bother, bother, bother... it turns out the my Dell Studio 1537 is not up to development work - it overheats and emergency shuts down if i do a heavy run of tests and compiles. My temporary workaround is to enable power saving and downclock the CPU to 60%. I'll have to dd a laptop cooler to my dev rig...

By the time I can see any dust in my PC's case, it's formed a thick cake on the CPU heatsink. Grab a can of compressed air and give the heatsink a good blast. Just had to do that earlier this week and I was amazed at how much dust came flying out that I never saw before.

I've been using an MS Natural keyboard (*throws up in mouth a little bit*) for many years (not the newer 4000 models, but the older edition). I like the key separation, but I'm beginning to hate the action. It slows me down.

What's the fastest keyboard type? I'm considering chicklet keys, but would ideally want to retain the split layout. Proper arrow keys and insert/delete cluster are important (as shown in the solar wireless picture in prior post).

I love the Razer Arctosa keyboard, very low profile responsive keyboard ... no split though. I use one at work, and my fingers thank me every day for it. I also like my G510 for the lit keys and macro buttons but holy cow it feels like typing on a DEC VT52 by comparison.

My pcs get a vacuum (ensuring that the power lead is still in the power supply to allow a earth return... vacuum cleaners are prone to developing a static charge!) every time my wife decides it time to either a) do a major clean of the house or b) decides its time to re-arrange the house! I dont know why but every so often she likes to swap our study with our main bedroom! )

Pretty cheap compared to the US for example, since, it seems, everyone in the US has a capped bandwidth.Here in germany its like 20-40 bucks, 16000 + DSLHave seen 64000 and VDSL and stuff... not all that much more expensive

I like it a lot except the mouse pad can be finicky. You can fix it by opening the front case and placing a bit of tape (youtube videos to help), very easy to fix actually. The most important part of a laptop is the quality of the keyboard (imo), and this one has a very nice one. Other than the mouse pad glitch (that can be easily fixed), I like it. If you need hard core 3D stay away from this piece of shit

I mostly do network programs and the only thing graphically intensive in most of my applications is swing, so it's perfect for me

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